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Definition: Duet |
DuetNoun1. Two items of the same kind. 2. Two performers or singers who perform together. 3. A pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome". 4. A musical composition for two performers. 5. A dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duet" was first used: 1740. (references) |
Note: Duet \Du*et"\, noun. Duetto.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of hearing a duet played, denotes a peaceful and even existence for lovers. No quarrels, as is customary in this sort of thing. Business people carry on a mild rivalry. To musical people, this denotes competition and wrangling for superiority. To hear a duet sung, is unpleasant tidings from the absent; but this will not last, as some new pleasure will displace the unpleasantness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DUET | German | Datenübertragungseinheit | Computing |
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Synonyms: DuetSynonyms: brace (n), couple (n), couplet (n), distich (n), doubleton (n), duad (n), duette (n), duo (n), dyad (n), pair (n), pas de deux (n), span (n), twain (n), twosome (n), yoke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Duet |
| English words defined with "duet": Duettino, Duetto ♦ primo ♦ secondo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "duet": Duettino, Duo ♦ octet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Duet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (duet, duetto), Czech (duet), Indonesian (duet), Romanian (duet), Serbo-Croatian (duet, duetto). |
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Movie/TV Titles | An Attempted Duet (1928) A Duet (1916) Kissing Duet From 'The Geisha' (1909) Paau lui ji duet meng ji lui (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Duet, Americanization program. High school, Eufaula, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | A guitar duet played in a classical guitar style. | | Piano and guitar duet with the piano accompanying the melodic guitar. |
| A straight-ahead jazz style featuring a swing style drum and saxophone duet. | ||
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| "Duet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.25% of the time. "Duet" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.25% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.58% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 171 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "duet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Duet | Last name | 1,000 | 16,966 |
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Expression using "duet": play a duet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "duet": duet-tone. | |
Ending with "duet": love-duet, piano-duet. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "duet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dyshe interpretuesish, duet (duetto), çift (conjugate, couple, couplet, double, doublet, match, pair, span, twin, two, twosome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لحن ثنائي, الثنائي مغنيان, ثنائي (bi-, bilateral, binary, dual, duo, duple, pair, twofold, twosome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дует. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornish | deudhen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | duet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dobbelt redigering (duet editing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tweeweg-montage (duet editing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قطعه موسیقی یااوازدونفری(مو.), دونفری نواختن , دونفری خواندن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | duetto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | duo (duo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | duett (duo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ντουέτο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ואט, צמ"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duett, kettős (double, dual, duplex, twin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | duet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | duo (duo), duetto (duo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 連吟 , デモ隊 (demonstrator, Du Pont de Nemours, dual, dual coat, dual system, dualism, duel, duetto, duo, duplicate, duty-free, duty-free shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | デュエット (duetto), れ"ぎ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeesaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uetday dueto (duetto), par (bond, couplet, duetto, even, fellow, oxbow, pair, peer, twain). (various references) duet, disputã (close contest, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, disputation, dispute, issue, splutter, strife), dialog (dialogue, duologue). (various references) дуэт (duetto, duo). (various references) sefahla. (various references) duet (duetto). (various references) dueto (duetto), canto (back, call, canto, cantus, chant, crow, edge, hymn, lay, minstrelsy, rim, sing, singing, song, thickness, vocals), canción (air, ballad, canzona, chanson, dirge, hymn, lay, lyric, singing, song, vocal). (various references) duett (duetto, duo). (various references) düet (duo), atışma (altercation, battle of words, bickering, quarrel, shooting match, spat, tiff), çift (ambi-, amphi-, bi-, binary, brace, conjugate, couple, dipl-, diplo, double, dual, duple, duplicate, dyad, even, geminate, pair, twin, yoke). (various references) дует (duett, duetto, duo). (various references) deuawd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | duetto. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "duet": duets, duetted, duetting, duettist, duettists. (additional references) | |
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"Duet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daet, deet, det, dett, deud, deuq, deush, deutz, deux, dewt, dext, Dhuit, dieti, doet, doget, Doit, domet, Domett, doset, douay, dout, doute, douzet, dret, Druiett, druit, Druitt, drumet, Druten, dsuet, duat, duate, duatz, duax, duay, dubt, ducet, dudet, dued, duem, duen, dueo, duer, duete, dueto, duett, duette, Duetti, duetto, duetz, duex, duft, duit, duix, duket, dukt, dult, dumet, dunt, dupt, durt, dut, dute, duth, dutp, Duyet, edunet, edute, udet, udit, uet, vuet, zuet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duet" (pronounced duwe"t or dyuwe"t) |
| 3 | -uw e" t | pirouette, statuette. |
| 3 | -uw e" t | pirouette, statuette. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-t-u" | |
-1 letter: due, ted. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-t-u" | |
+1 letter: debut, duets, duvet, educt, etude, luted, muted, outed, trued, tubed, tuned. | |
+2 letters: autoed, bestud, bruted, budget, bunted, busted, butled, butted, chuted, dauted, dautie, debuts, deduct, degust, depute, deputy, detour, devout, dilute, ducted, dulcet, dunite, dunted, dusted, duster, duties, duvets, educts, eluted, etudes, fluted, futzed, gusted, gutted, hunted, hutted, justed, jutted, louted, lunted, lusted, musted, nudest, nutted, ousted, pouted, punted, putted, putzed, quoted, redout, routed, rudest, rusted, rutted, sauted, shuted, suited, tabued, tauted, tedium, teledu, thoued, toured, toused, touted, truced, trudge, tubbed, tucked, tufted, tugged, tumped, tunned, tupped, turfed, turned, tushed, tusked, tutted, tuxedo, united, untied, update. | |
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